Xah Lee wrote: « the Python regex documentation is available at: http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_re-write/lib/module-re.html ...»
Jürgen Exner wrote: «Yeah, sure, and the Perl regex documentation is available at 'perldoc perlre'. So what? Is that anything new or surprising?» It is of interest and new, because it is a rewrite of Python's documentation. And it is of interest to Perlers, because Perl and Python uses the same regex syntax. The purpose of this rewrite, is to fix Python's lousy documentation, and to demonstrate a style of technical writing, where precision and clarity is the prime directive. It demonstrates a style of documentation, where the philosophy is task-oriented and uses examples sans misgivings. (in this aspect, it is similar to the style of Perl's official documentation.) Further, the exposition style focuses on the manifestation of the language elements, as a piece of mathematics, a style often found in functional language's documentations. It is opposed to, treating the language as a state machine or compiler engine, which are often necessarily the approach of imperative languages's documentations. This project was undertaken as a response to a challenge put forth to me with a $100 reward, on 2005-04-12 on comp.lang.python newsgroup. I never received the due reward. Thanks. Xah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ∑ http://xahlee.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
